Fair Markets for Me, Protectionism for Thee

Get your bingo cards at the ready, because Jonah is joined by Ryan Bourne—a policy scholar at the Cato Institute and author of The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy—for a decisively wonky Remnant on all things prices. What are prices? Why doesn’t price fixing work? And what's up with the libertarians? Show Notes: —Ryan's new book The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy —Ryan’s profile at Cato —Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19 —Suicide of the West Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices